M. Fátima C. Guedes da Silva is an Associate Professor at Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, President of the Portuguese Electrochemical Society, Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences of Lisbon (ACL), and Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences (EurASc). Her research activities usually involve the design and synthesis of novel coordination compounds and their eventual application by exploring the relationships among their structures, properties (including reactivity), and function (application). Her main research interests include the following: structural determination of metal complexes, organic compounds, metal polynuclear assemblies, and supramolecular structures by X-ray diffraction analysis; non-covalent interactions; activation by transition metal centres of small molecules with biological, pharmacological, environmental, or industrial significance; metal mediated synthesis and catalysis; molecular electrochemistry and electrocatalysis; and mechanistic investigation of fast reactions by digital simulation of cyclic voltammetry. She has co-edited three books (Alkane Functionalization, Wiley; Non-Covalent Interactions in Catalysis, RSC; Synthesis and Applications in Chemistry and Materials, WSP), co-authored 19 book chapters, over 390 research publications, 13 patents, and has been awarded the Scientific Prize Universidade de Lisboa / Caixa Geral de Depósitos (2017) and the Scientific Prize of the Portuguese Electrochemical Society (2013).